One of my all-time faves: southern cassowary preening by Jun Matsui - Birdlife Australia 2020 photography winner. If you rotate the image it can look like so many things... #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

Not posting much lately due to the new additions to the household: Homer & Hera. Although, if dietary preferences had been taken into account, they could have been named Mozza & Rella 😊 #Puppies #Dogs

This may seem harsh but, with a test batting average now of only ~24, is Harmanpreet the Mike Brearley of women's test cricket? More wickets, to be sure, but most of them came in 1 test >10 years ago. #CricketSky

Great Alyssa Healy cricket career synopsis by Roshan Gede. www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news... #CricketSky

My fave from the 2026 Underwater Photographer Of The Year Competition: curious sperm whale calf. Photo by Cecile Gabillon Barats. #SciArt #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #MarineLife #Whales

Chloe "Bulldozer" Ainsworth scores her maiden WNCL century at ~1 run/ball. #CricketSky www.cricket.com.au/videos/44525...

AUS-W v IND-W T20I about to start: Huge news for Australia with vice-captain Tahlia McGrath and veteran Megan Schutt both left out of the XI for game one. #CricketSky

Lovely profile by Laura Jolly of the great Alex Blackwell on the occasion of her entering the Australian cricket hall of fame. #CricketSky www.cricket.com.au/news/4450338...

😉Priceless Jim Benton cartoon in the New Yorker. #ValentinesDay #Cupid

Deep ocean glass squid, with tentacles on its head, ~1.7km below sea level off the coast of Argentina. Photo by Schmidt Ocean Institute. #SciArt #MarineLife #NaturePhotography #OceanLife

Teams for the GGIX vs IND-W T20 about to start: GXI C Knott, G Voll, A Learoyd, A Wikman, N Faltum, T Flintoff, A King, S Ginger, K Garth, C Ainsworth, L Hamilton IND S Mandhana, S Verma, J Rodrigues, H Kaur, R Ghosh, D Sharma, A Reddy, K Gaud, S Patil, S Charani, R Thakur #CricketSky

Australian Women's Domestic Player of the Year, as voted by her peers: Nicola Carey. #CricketSky

My fave from the 2026 Close-Up Photographer of the Year awards: juvenile sharpear enope squid. Photo by Andre Johnson. #SciArt #NaturePhotography #OceanLife

My fave from the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year nominees: a small male broad-headed bark spider perched atop a large female, together looking like the face of some kind of forest creature. Photo by Artur Tomaszek. #SciArt #NaturePhotography #Pareidolia

Today's eastern water dragon - here's looking at you kid #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Reptiles

Risso's dolphins - accumulate "social interaction scars" with age. Photos by Laura Chaffey & Jodie Lowe. #SciArt #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

Satin bowerbird cooling off with a flourish. Photo by Mark Evans/Getty Images. #SciArt #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography

Marvelous, mostly funny, international cricket stories in this Best of Willow Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRLm... #CricketSky

Great QLD v SA WNCL match saw SA squeak home via a record 10th wicket chasing partnership between Darcie Brown & Eleanor Larosa. Darcie had already taken a 5fer while Eleanor wasn't called on to bowl, so maybe that's the motivation key. Sianna Ginger's creditable 4fer not quite enough. #CricketSky

To discourage any more dated "Hogan hero" headlines, I vote for Shogun as the nickname for the promising Steve Hogan. www.cricket.com.au/news/4435779... #CricketSky #U19CricketWorldCup

Yes, all those World Cup medals & amazing batting innings, but these are Alyssa Healy's best numbers by far. #CricketSky Wicketkeeping in WT20Is (all): Dismissals 126 Catches 63 Stumpings 63 Dismissals/Inn 0.86 Wicketkeeping in WT20I (wins): Dismissals 101 Catches 51 Stumpings 50 Dismissals/Inn 0.98

Wicketkeepers fewest Tests to reach 200 dismissals: 47 A Gilchrist 47 Q de Kock *47 A Carey* 50 B Haddin 52 M Boucher 52 K Akmal 53 R Marsh #CricketSky #TestCricket

Steve Smith's 14 catches in the Ashes broke the fielder-catch record of 13 for a 4-Test series (given Smudge only played in 4 games), & came within 1 of equaling Jack Gregory's >100-year old record of 15 for a 5-Test series. #CricketSky #TestCricket

Update: Most Test catches by a fielder at the SCG: *S Smith 21* G Chappell 19 A Border 18 I Botham 18 M Taylor 18 M Waugh 18 R Simpson 17 #CricketSky #TestCricket

Most catches by a fielder at the SCG: *S Smith 20* G Chappell 19 A Border 18 I Botham 18 M Taylor 18 M Waugh 18 R Simpson 17 #CricketSky #TestCricket

Hooded seal pup, photo by Jeroen Hoekendijk. #SciArt #WildlifePhotography

Yesterday's delightful close encounter: while mowing the lawn, the local gang of apostlebirds (all 12) unperturbedly walked right up to & around me, all the while eating grass seeds & chattering away, perhaps with some happy new year greetings. #Birds #NaturePhotography

It's the perfect time of the year (after suboptimal gift-giving/receiving) for a selection of wonderments from the brilliant Katerina Kamprani. More at her theuncomfortable website. #SciArt

My fave from the LensCulture Street Photography awards: Synchronicities by Kebs Cayabyab. #SciArt #Photography

Just to be clear about all *7* of the Australian wicketkeepers to score at least 1 hundred in AUS v ENG tests: Margaret Jennings Ian Healy Adam Gilchrist Jodie Fields Brad Haddin Beth Mooney Alex Carey #CricketSky #TestCricket

Nice tribute to Elyse Villani (winner of so much & finally a WBBL trophy) by Laura Jolly. We can still enjoy watching her in the WNCL one-day comp for a while yet... www.cricket.com.au/news/4419121... #CricketSky

Spanish imperial eagle - with a heart on its shoulder. Photo by Tomas Calle. #SciArt #BirdPhotography

Wow, just wow. Anderson Phillip's wonderball to bowl Kane Williamson - check it out at ~1:20 in these highlights from NZC www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMH6... #CricketSky #TestCricket

Most Test catches by a fielder vs England: in the last 2 matches Steve Smith has passed Allan Border then Greg Chappell to top the list. Player Mat Inns CtFi D/I *SPD Smith 39 73 66 0.904* GS Chappell 35 68 61 0.897 AR Border 47 88 57 0.647 #CricketSky #TestCricket

Christmas spiders (Austracantha minax). Photos by Lee Murphy & Zartok. #SciArt #NaturePhotography

Most Test catches by a fielder at a single ground: 43: Jayawardene, Sinhalese Sports Club *36: Smith, Woolloongabba* 36: Kallis, Newlands 35: Fleming, Basin Reserve 30: Root, Lords #CricketSky #TestCricket

Kemar Roach dismisses Kane Williamson for the 6th time - in just 9 Tests. #NZvWI #CricketSky

Great back story of Brendan Doggett by Bharat Sundaresan #CricketSky www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news...

😉Looks like even Ralph Fiennes managed to bowl Mike Atherton for a duck #CricketSky

Numbats relaxing: one of many special photos by "the numbat whisperer" Lyn Alcock. #NaturePhotography

I've never seen such a nice pear shaped Venn diagram before: Fig 2 from "The relationships of viral and protozoal co-infections to Chlamydia pecorum infection and chlamydiosis outcomes in northern koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus)" by Muir et al PLoS Pathog 2025 21(11): e1013632. #Science 🧪

My fave from the 2025 Nature InFocus photography competition winners: Nautilus Clinging On To Drifting Leaf by Tinnapat Netcharussaeng. #SciArt #NaturePhotography

How hard could it be to cover Australian cricket in <5000 words? No worries if you're Andy Frank in this month's Australian Geographic. #CricketSky www.australiangeographic.com.au/history-cult...

😊A panel from the national treasure First Dog On The Moon's cartoon: "First Day of the Ashes Test". #CricketSky

My fave from the 2025 Nature Conservancy Australia Oceania Photo Contest: "Peacock mantis shrimp holding her clutch of eggs" by Peter McGee. #SciArt #NaturePhotography

My fave from the short-listed finalists of the 2025 BirdLife Australia photography awards: Wingecarribee River Darter by Jacqui Davey. #SciArt #BirdPhotography

An amazing shot of the Andes from a plane by Andrea Araya (one of the latest "Guardian readers’ best photographs") #SciArt #NaturePhotography

😉Wisden wines? But not yet encouraging any of Trav's. #CricketSky

Wow, Smudge, what a catch! #CricketSky www.cricket.com.au/videos/44005...

This 43min video is about the Melbourne Renegades their successful 2024 WBBL campaign, but watch it for the incredibly moving Josie Dooley story. #CricketSky www.cricket.com.au/videos/43975...